"Computer programming is the art, craft and science of writing programs which define how computers operate. This book will teach you how to write computer programs using a programming language designed by Google named Go." Freely available book on Go.

It's nice that the standard is that long, but irrelevant. A great deal of that standard (if it's anything like Scheme's) deals with implementation details, which are mostly irrelevant to programming (at least until you get to the optimization stage.)

The fact of the matter is that Lisp's form makes it simple, to use and understand. Regardless of how large the standard document is.

Of course, as you might gather, I'm more of into Scheme than Common Lisp. Which also more truly embodies the "simple" description.